ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,107, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power converter with surge suppression" was invented by Chun-Kai Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Heng Su (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter with surge suppression is provided. The power converter includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch, a control circuit, and a discharge circuit. The control circuit connects the high-side switch and the low-side switch, and controls the operation of the high-side switch and the low-side switch. The discharge circuit receives an output voltage drop signal from an external ...